Yemen arrested 7,000 foreigners last year

Published December 25th, 2003 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Yemeni security authorities have arrested about 7,000 foreigners who entered the country illegally during the current year. Most of them were from Africa, a weekly newspaper reported on Thursday. It quoted sources in the Interior Ministry as saying that 5,214 Somalis and 1,200 Ethiopians were arrested after they infiltrated into Yemen through the sea. 

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